HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Preparations are being made by tbe Diamond 

 Dowel Company of Tomahawli, Wis., for opening 

 its plant in the buildings formerly oconplod by 

 tlio Tomahawk Woodenware Company. 



Articles of incorporation have been tiled by the 

 Sawyer Lumber Company of Marinette, Wis. 

 Tbe company is capitalized at .$40,000, with R. 

 I'. Goodman, R. B. Goodman and C. A. Goodman 

 as the incorporators. 



The firm of Lotz & Gorman of Waiisau, Wis., 

 has purchased two tracts of land of 100 acres 

 each In Marathon county from .lacob Gensman. 

 That part of the land in Flieth township con- 

 sists of hemlocli and Will be cut this winter while 

 the remainder in tbe town of Texas comprises ' 

 pine, basswood, hardwood and hemlocli and will 

 not be cut for two years. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Company has installed a 

 new Prescott band mill in its No. 2 plant at 

 Marinette, Wis. The old mill was operated al- 

 most continuously for twenty-seven years. 



Contracts have been awarded by tbe Wright 

 Lumber Company for the erection of a new saw- 

 mill at Merrill, Wis., to replace the one recently 

 destroyed by tire. The new structure will be 

 41!.'!l62 feet in dimension. It will have a stand- 

 ard band saw and re-saw. 



The city of Oconto, Wis., has voted a bond 

 issue of $25,000 to be used in connection with a 

 government appropriation of $75,000 for build- 

 ing a sixteen-foot harbor and turning basin for 

 the city. Shipping facilities of the lumbering 

 concerns of tbe city will be greatly increased 

 as a result of this improvement. 



At a recent meeting of tbe creditors of the 

 defunct Two Rivers (Wis.) Woodenware Com- 

 pany, held in Milwaukee, an offer of 20 per cent 

 for the assets was accepted and tbe Milwaukee 

 Trust Company, trustee, was discharged. The 

 offer was made by John Conant, president and 

 manager of the Conant Manufacturing Company, 

 South Milwaukee, manufacturer of woodenware 

 and veneers. Mr. Conant agrees to pay for the 

 cost of administrating the estate and assumes all 

 mortgages. Mr. Conant will manage tlie affairs 

 of his new plant from his office in South Mil- 

 waukee. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



The annual meeting of the Northwestern 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association will be held 

 in Minneapolis December 6. Plans for tbe meet- 

 ing and the dinner to follow are being made. 



The Nolan Brothers Hardwood Company of 

 Memphis, Tenn., will open a distributing yard 

 at Minnesota Transfer, and a branch sales of- 

 fice in Minneapolis. The site has been acquired 

 and it is planned to carry a stock of 1.000,000 

 feet of hardwood lumber in the yard with facil- 

 ities for prompt delivery. .Tohn Burmcister of 

 Minneapolis has bought an interest in the com- 

 pany, which will also handle the output of the 

 Red Star Lumber Company, controlled by Mr. 

 Burmeister, with mills and a large tract of tim- 

 ber at Mayna, La. Mr. Burmeister becomes 

 secretary and treasurer : L. C. Nolan, president, 

 and E. H. Nolan, vice-president. E. H. Nolan 

 and Mr. Burmeister will have charge of the 

 northwestern end of the business. The yard 

 here will make a specialty of wagon stock, but 

 will carry a general line of hardwood for the 

 wholesale trade. 



L. C. Nolan of the Nolan Brothers Hardwood 

 Company was here a few days ago calling on 

 customers. He reported business very quiet. 



Philip R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lum- 

 ber Company and the Ruby Lumber Company, 

 Ruby, Wis., is a candidate for the state legis- 

 lature in the north Minneapolis district, on 

 the prohibition ticket. Mr. Hamilton has never 

 been active in politics, but is well known and 

 very popular in the district, where he has lived 

 since 1884. 



The Minneapolis building movement has held 

 up better than expected, and October permits 



totaled $1,177,275, compared with $l,0.'!.-),83r. 

 last year. The total for the ten months of 

 this year is $12,9SS,7,'!.">, compared with $11,- 

 140,800 for the same time last year. 



William Crawford Bailey, the veteran bard- 

 wood lumber dealer of the Northwest, died 

 October 23 at St. Barnabas hospital, this city. 

 Mr. Bailey was seventy-four years old, a native 

 of Milford, Maine. In 18G4 he went into logging 

 operations in Maine and was active in the pine 

 woods for sixteen years. In 1880 be came to 

 Minneapolis and in the next year he began deal- 

 ing in hardwood lumber. In which he special- 

 ized from that time until his death. He is sur- 

 vived by his wife, one son and three daughters. 



DETROIT 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The II. M. Loud's Sons Company, operating 

 at AuSable, recently shipped' a cargo of 200,- 

 1100 feet of log run maple to a Georgian Bay 

 Out., port, and a cargo of special hardwood 

 timbers to be used in the construction of a 

 breakwater at a Lake Superior port. 



October was a fairly good month in tbe hard- 

 wood trade and all the operators heard from 

 state that the volume of business was better 

 than for the same month last year. Some firms 

 feel that prices for some commodities are not 

 as good as could be hoped for, but on the whole 

 very little dissatisfaction is expressed. 



The flooring trade is apparently active, since 

 all of tbe plants in tbe valley are running full 

 time and have orders booked to keep stock 

 moving. W. D. Young & Co. at Bay City have 

 had a busy and successful season and are mov- 

 ing out a large quantity of manufactured stock. 

 Tbe Hanson-Ward flooring plant, which was 

 completed last spring, has been operated stead- 

 ily and is doing a satisfactory business. Knapp 

 & Scott, operating a sawmill at Bay City, have 

 cut out a lot of hardwood stock for the Han- 

 son-Ward people. Ross & Wentworth are hav- 

 ing several million feet of hardwood manu- 

 factured at Bay City plants, besides hemlock, 

 and prospects look good for the winter. 



At Saginaw the S. L. Eastman Flooring Com- 

 pany has handled the usual amount of stock, 

 which aggregates about 12.000,000 feet for the 

 year. Tbe company recently erected a new 

 warehouse. S. L. Eastman, bead of the con- 

 tern, just returned from a visit to the Pacific 

 I'oast. He is also principal stockholder in the 

 Robinson Lumber Company, operating a band 

 sawmill at Goodar, Ogemaw county, cutting 30,- 

 (100 feet of lumber a day. The company also 

 operates a logging road, and last spring in- 

 creased its timber holdings by the purchase 

 of 10,000,000 feet of standing timber from the 

 I'rescott Lumber Company, located near Rose 

 City. This timber will be cut and manufac- 

 tured at the Goodar mill. A large portion of 

 the maple cut at the mill will go by rail to the 

 flooring plant at Saginaw. 



The Strable Manufacturing Company at Sag- 

 inaw, a flooring plant in which J. T. Wylie and 

 H. A. Batcbelor are heavy stockholders, is doing 

 a good business this season. The two gentle- 

 men named are heavy stockholders in the Batcb- 

 elor Timiier Company, operating a sawmill of 

 10,000,000 feet capacity at West Branch; the 

 Wylie & Buell Lumber Company, owning large 

 bodies of timber in the upper portion of the 

 lower peninsula, and also J. T. Wylie & 

 Co., operating hoop, stave and beading plants, 

 at Saginaw. Gaylord and Boyne Falls. 



At Grayling the Kerry & Hanson flooring 

 plant is having a busy run. the product being 

 moved by rail through the valley. 



Tbe Kneeland-Blgelow Company of Bay City 

 has been offered $100 a thousand feet for about 

 25.000 to 28.000 feet of birdseye maple logs 

 delivered on cars at the shipping point in Mont- 

 morency county. This firm also has about 1,- 

 (100.000 feet of basswood lumber at its Bay 

 (.'ity plant. 



October building in Detroit, while not equal- 

 ing In monetary value the record of the same 

 month a year ago, showed an Increase In the 

 number of buildings. Permits were taken out 

 for the construction of 424 new buildings. 20 

 more than in October, 1000. A big increase In 

 the better class of dwellings. In which hard- 

 wood flnlsh Is used throughout, is noted. 



The Lumber Bowling League, composed of 

 eight teams representing prominent local deal- 

 ers, is now In full swing. Tbe team represent- 

 ing E. W. Leech, the largo hardwood dealer, 

 wliicb last year had many mishaps and finished 

 absolutely last, has a better showing this season, 

 and last week surprised cvei-yone by grabbing 

 three straight games. The teams now line up 

 in the following order : W. A. C. Miller Com- 

 pany, W. H. Harding Lumlier Company, Chas. 

 W. Kotcher, Michigan Lumber Yard, Inc., 

 Ilestriek Lumber Company, Ternes Lumber & 

 Coal Company. E. W. Leech and the Gratiot 

 Lumber & Coal Company. 



A shortage in railroad cars has affected the 

 business of local hardwood dealers to a con- 

 siderable extent. Many shipments have been 

 held up. 



A strong demand for white ash for use in 

 automobiles is reported by B. W. Leech. This 

 wood has been found hj' motor car manufac- 

 turers to be just what is needed for the manu- 

 facture of running boards and the Packard and 

 Cadillac plants are using large quantities of it. 

 Otlier dealers also report a big increase in the 

 demand for this wood. 



A decrease in the consumption of stock Is 

 reported by Thomas Forman of the Thos. For- 

 man Company. Mr. Forman said, however, that 

 general conditions are good, and indications all 

 point to excellent business. 



Williard T. Hubbard and Mr. Goodyear, hard- 

 wood dealers of Toledo, O., were in Detroit 

 on business last week. 



Tbe Dwight Lumber Company is running 

 to its full capacity and its mills are turning 

 out large quantities of the Dwight brand of 

 hardwood interior finish. The demand for its 

 special thin hardwood flooring is increasing 

 steadily. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



L. L. Skillman of the Skillman Lumber Com- 

 pany is at work again after a severe siege of 

 typhoid fever. 



W. R. Smith of the Stearns Company has gone 

 East on a short business trip. 



The Valley City Lumber Company has changed 

 its location in the Michigan Trust building, the 

 offices now being located on tbe fifth floor. 



C. S. Travis of J. W. Travis & Son returned 

 November 7 from a business trip South. The 

 company has timber interests in Virginia and 

 North Carolina. 



A stock company is being formed to build an 

 $80,000 furniture exposition building on Ionia, 

 Division and Lyon street.s, north of the new 

 postofflce. If will be built by outside manu- 

 facturers along lines followed in the erection of 

 the Manufacturers' building. 



H. J. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company 

 left for New York November 7 and will meet 

 his wife there, who Is returning from a visit in 

 London. 



The basket factory at Lawton, recently de- 

 stroyed by fire, will be replaced by a cement 

 block structure, 40x100 feet, one story. 



Reports appearing in Cadillac and Grand Rap- 

 ids papers recently that one of the mills of the 

 Dennis Brothers Salt & Lumber Company had 

 been badly damaged by the bursting of a cylinder 

 bead were not true. A. L. Dennis was there at 

 the time the accident is alleged to have happened 

 and states that the plant is operating as usual. 



